Pragmatistic Quotes & Sayings

The first experience can never be repeated. The first love, the first sun-rise, the first South Sea Island, are memories apart, and touched a virginity of sense. — Robert Louis Stevenson

America is hungry for people who believe in something. — Henry Hyde

Probably Hobbes got it right when he said that a leviathan, a third party with a monopoly on the use of legitimate use of force in a territory, might be among the biggest violence reduction techniques ever invented. — Steven Pinker

Every brush stroke has a certain tension, a certain nervousness. Every brush stroke is, in a sense, some kind of an accident. — Raphael Soyer

After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government. — C.L.R. James

If you or me go to the gas station to fill up our car and it costs us much more than we expected, it will zap our discretionary income. We won't have the extra money to buy that washing machine or new winter coat-all big ticket items that are important to economic growth. — Maria Bartiromo

Your carriage awaits, my lady." I walked up to him and slipped my hand in his extended arm. "Ever the gentleman," I teased. "Whatever it takes to make the lady smile. — Abbi Glines

On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true. — William James

I'm a Jehovah's Witness. — Prince